About This Artwork

Claude Monet
French, 1840-1926

Water Lily Pond, 1900

Oil on canvas
35 3/8 x 39 3/4 in. (89.8 x 101 cm)
Inscribed upper left: Claude Monet / 1900
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection, 1933.441

Wildenstein 1628

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

New York, Durand-Ruel Galleries, Monet, 1915, cat. 8.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Mrs. L.L Coburn Collection: Modern Paintings and Water Colors, April 6-October 9, 1932, cat. 25.

Washington D.C., American Federation of Art Circuit, Design in Nature, June 1948-June 1949.

Chicago, Remington Rand, April 1952.

The Art Institute of Chicago, The Paintings of Claude Monet, April 1-30, 1957, no cat.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings by Monet, March 15-May 11, 1975, cat. 101 (ill.).

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Monet’s Years at Giverny: Beyond Impressionism, April 19-July 19, 1978, cat. 33 (ill.), traveled to The St. Louis Art Museum, July-September 15, 1978.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape, June 28-September 16, 1984, cat. 93 (ill.), traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, October 23, 1984-January 6, 1985 and Paris, Galeries Nationales d’Exposition du Grand Palais, February 8-April 22, 1985.

Auckland City Art Gallery, Monet: Painter of Light, April 29-June 9, 1985, cat. 27 (ill.).

Madrid, Museo Español de Arte Contemporaneo, Claude Monet, May-June 1986, cat. 94.

Kunstmuseum Basel, Claude Monet: Nympheas, Impression–Vision, July 20-October 19, 1986, cat. 10 (ill.).

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Monet in the ‘90’s: The Series Paintings, 1990, cat. 91 (ill.), traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, October 23, 1984-January 6, 1985 and London, The Royal Academy, February 8-April 22, 1985.

Paris, Musée national de l’Orangerie, Monet: Le cycle des Numphéas, May 6-August 2, 1999, cat. 6 (ill.).

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Monet in the 20th Century, September 20-December 27, 1998, cat. 1 (ill.), traveled to London, Royal Academy of Arts, January 23-April 18, 1998.

Fort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Museum of Art, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29–November 2, 2008, cat. 90 (ill.).

Publication History

Sillart, “Le Salon des Independents a Paris,” Apollon 1-2 (1914), pp. 12 (ill.), 43.

G. Geoffroy, “Claude Monet,” L’Art des Artistes 11 (1920), p. 73 (ill.).

L. Descaves, “Chez Claude Monet,” Paris Magazine (August 25, 1920), ill.

M.C., “Monets in the Art Institute,” Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 19 (1925), pp. 20, 21 (ill.).

Florent Fels, Claude Monet (Paris, 1925), p. 63 (ill).

Camille Mauclair, Claude Monet (Paris, 1927), pl. 39.

Léon Werth, Claude Monet (Paris, 1928), pl. 50.

John Rewald, “Monet, Solid Builder of Impressions,” Art News 42 (October 1943), p. 25 (ill.).

C. F. Kelley, “Chicago: Record Years,” Art News (Summer 1952), p. 54 (ill.).

The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 320.

A. James Speyer, “Twentieth-Century European Painting and Sculpture,” Apollo 84 (September 1966), p. 222.

Frederick A. Sweet, “Great Chicago Collectors,” Apollo 84 (September 1966), p. 203, 201, fig. 29.

D. Rouart, J. D. Rey and R. Maillard, Monet nymphéas ou les miroirs du temps (Paris, 1972), p. 155 (ill.)

John Maxon, “Monet Exhibition,” Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 69, 2 (March-April, 1975), pp. 2-4.

Grace Seiberling, Monet’s Series, (New York and London, 1981), pp. 219, 230, 276, fig. 30.

Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet, Biographie et catalogue raisonné, vol. 4 (Lausanne, 1985), pp. 194-195, no. 1628 (ill.).

Richard Brettell, Post-Impressionists (Chicago, 1987), ill.

Charles F. Stuckey, Monet Waterlilies (New York, 1988), p. 33, pl. 6.

Daniel Wildenstein, Monet: Catalogue raisonné (Cologne, 1996), pp. 728-729, no. 1628 (ill.).

The Age of Impressionism at the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven and London, 2008), cat. 90, pp. 172–73 (ill.).

Ownership History

Bought from the artist by Léonce Rosenberg in December 1900 [this and the following information according to Wildenstein 1996]. Prince de Wagram, 1904. L. Rosenberg, Paris. Durand-Ruel, 1914. Arthur Meeker, Chicago, 1915. Durand-Ruel, c. 1923. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn, Chicago; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1933.